The biography of Mrs. Sarah Heckford who, after pioneering child welfare in the East End of London, moved to South Africa in 1878 and set up as a trader travelling by ox-cart across the Transvaal.

Lady trader: A biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford

Allen, Vivien

Collins

Lady Trader (U)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ulverscroft

Kruger's Pretoria: Buildings and Personalities of the City in the nineteeth century.

A.A. Balkema

<p>The letters that passed between a young unknown provincial journalist and a famous Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet over a period of two years give a fascinating sidelight on 1880s literary life. They illuminate the last years of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the start of a career that was to make Hall Caine the most popular and best-selling romantic novelist of his time. The value and interest of this book lie in the fact that both sides of a correspondence are printed here together for the first time. It should appeal both to specialists and the general reader. The book contains sixteen plates.</p>

Dear Mr Rossetti: The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Hall Caine 1878-1881

Reference

Caine, Hall

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Words, Language & Grammar

Sheffield Academic Pr

Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer

<p>This first full biography of the Victorian romantic novelist Hall Caine traces his life from childhood in Liverpool, through his time as 'housemate' to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and association with members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to his triumphant career as a popular novelist. Caine, a swashbuckling character who might have figured in one of his own novels, wrote fifteen novels and many non-fiction works. Vivien Allen has been able to take advantage of Caine's family papers and letters and, living in the Isle of Man, is well placed to write about this half-forgotten author of Manx descent who made his home there from 1896 until his death in 1931. The book contains letters to Hall Caine from the American, Dr Francis Tumblety who has been recently identified as the probable 'Jack the Ripper'. These letters were mentioned in the Channel 4 (UK) documentary 'Jack the Ripper' 1996. Much of the archive material was accessed with the assistance of the New York Public Library and the New York Theatre Museum.</p>

Sheffield Academic+press

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